Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 25 09:04, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > On Feb 24 14:46, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> With Roger's very patient help, I was able to get ADInsight capturing
> >> information.
> >> 
> >> I did a run with the original dll under 32 bit Cygwin running a 32 bit
> >> program (echo).
> >> 
> >> Output and all possible reports (in html) from the tool are here:
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33069639/ADInsight.tar.gz 
> >> 
> >> This 32 bit version is the original slower version (takes a few mins
> >> to open a window): CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW DEHAGART-WS02 1.7.34(0.285/5/3)
> >> 2015-02-04 12:12 i686 Cygwin 
> >> 
> >> So I downloaded the snapshot DLL for 32 bits and did it again:
> >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW DEHAGART-WS02 1.7.35s(0.286/5/3) 20150223 21:02:38
> >> i686 Cygwin
> >> 
> >> But this time I wasn't able to get any output on the ADInsight
> >> (scratches head)
> >
> > Perfectly normal.  When fetching group info, it does not request any
> > LDAP info now.  In fact, a single LsaLookupSids call for all groups
> > in your token is all that's required now :)
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> 
> I was having slow slow Cygwin startups the last bit of time, then I read
> something about using cygserv since that caches something. (I know, very
> imprecise, sorry)
> 
> Anyway, grabbed cygserv, started it.  Now cygwin starts almost instantly
> again.  Might not be what you are talking about, didn't read back through all
> these messages.  Just my 2 cents.

Is not what I'm talking about.  Try the 1.7.35-0.4 test release without
cygserver.  It should be noticably faster now.


Corinna

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